Wyleu Street, SE23 has an unusual name


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Wyleu Street, SE23 has an unusual name.

London authorities frowned on duplicate streetnames by the 1880s and builders had to get more creative.

'Wyleu' has an unknown origin but it's the Welsh word for “weep”.

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